ext4: Fix hang on umount with quotas when journal is aborted
Call dquot_drop() from ext4_dquot_drop() even if we fail to start a
transaction. Otherwise we never get to dropping references to quota structures
from the inode and umount will hang indefinitely. Thanks to Payphone LIOU for
spotting the problem.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
CC: Payphone LIOU <lioupayphone@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 93a7e74..e3b3483 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3040,8 +3040,14 @@
/* We may delete quota structure so we need to reserve enough blocks */
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, 2*EXT4_QUOTA_DEL_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
- if (IS_ERR(handle))
+ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+ /*
+ * We call dquot_drop() anyway to at least release references
+ * to quota structures so that umount does not hang.
+ */
+ dquot_drop(inode);
return PTR_ERR(handle);
+ }
ret = dquot_drop(inode);
err = ext4_journal_stop(handle);
if (!ret)